Exam question 2 · Perrault's Tales, Blue Beard: the wife's brothers arrive i…

By what means did the wife's brothers arrive at the gate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brothers · What happens: mean, do, arrive · To what, where: gate

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1080 «Perrault's Tales, Blue Beard: the wife's brothers arrive in time, Blue Beard dies, and she inherits his wealth» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wife	det
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brothers	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 wife	case
8	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 arrive	nsubj
9	arrive	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 gate	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gate	det
12	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 arrive	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	arrive	present	the wife's brothers	the gate	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

on horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	on	on	ADP	_	2 horses	case
2	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

in a hired wagon from the market

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	4 wagon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wagon	det
3	hired	hire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 wagon	amod
4	wagon	wagon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 market	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 market	det
7	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wagon	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hire	participle							vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

by foot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	2 foot	case
2	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

on horseback as mounted horsemen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	on	on	ADP	_	2 horseback	case
2	horseback	horseback	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 horsemen	case
4	mounted	mount	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 horsemen	amod
5	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 horseback	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mount	participle							vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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